3 in Blue Origin crew set new world records aboard New Shepard spaceflight
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
Private space company Blue Origin completed its sixth private human spaceflight on Thursday, carrying an American woman and two others who set a new Guinness World Record on the trip.
Blue Origin's New Shepard N-22 mission lifted off Thursday morning from Launch Site One in West Texas carrying six passengers on the space-tourism flight.
Onboard were Sara Sabry, Steve Young, Coby ISS tests organisms, materials in space
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the Sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outside of the International Space Station are exposed to atomic oxygen (AO) and other charged particles as it orbits the Earth at the very edge of our atmosphere. Only the hardiest materials, equipment, Additional Artemis I test objectives to provide added confidence in capabilities
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
During Artemis I, NASA plans to accomplish several primary objectives, including demonstrating the performance of the Orion spacecraft's heat shield from lunar return velocities, demonstrating operations and facilities during all mission phases from launch countdown through recovery, and retrieving the crew module for post-flight analysis.
As the first integrated flight of the Space Launch Artemis 1 becomes cultural, educational time capsule for trip around moon
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
When NASA's Orion spacecraft travels beyond the Moon during Artemis I, boosted by the Space Launch System rocket on its maiden voyage, the spacecraft will carry a host of mementos for educational engagement and posterity in the Official Flight Kit.
NASA spacecraft, both crewed and uncrewed, have carried mementos from Earth since the 1960s. NASA's Voyager probe carried with it a gold record Ten Earth Years Later On Mars Sols 3553-3554
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
Tosol we uplinked a two-sol plan as Curiosity continues to navigate "Paraitepuy Pass." The terrain surrounding the rover, while visually stunning, has impacted our communication bandwidth and timing.
In addition, these days Earth rises relatively late on Mars, pushing the handover (i.e., start of the plan) to the late morning when the thermal environment is suboptimal for APXS touch-and-go RIT astrophysicists collaborate on JWST survey yielding wide view of the early universe
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. The images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a much wider field of view than Webb's First Deep Field image, which was released July 12. The images represent some of the first out of a major collaboration of astronomers and other academic researchers team Spire Global to scale up constellation for HANCOM inSPACE with second satellite
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has announced an agreement with HANCOM inSPACE ("Hancom"), initially a spin-off by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and now a part of HANCOM Group, for a second mission with Spire Space Services. Hancom will host an optical payload on a second Spire 6U satellite, named HANCOM-2, and Spire will manage the payload integration, satellite launch and mission operatio Quasar to deliver space data as a service
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
Rashmi Karanth has always been fascinated by space. As a child, she would look up to the skies and wonder what lay beyond.
The computer science engineer and business technology expert also has a keen interest in data and analytics. "How you make data consumable and present it as information is something I'm very passionate about," says Karanth.
Having forged a highly successful caree Blue Canyon Technologies opens new factory dedicated to manufacturing cubesats
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:58
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, celebrated the grand opening of its new CubeSat Factory in Boulder, Colorado, with members of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The expanded 31,000-square-foot facility consolidates manufacturing ef Virgin Galactic again delays start of commercial suborbital flights
Friday, 05 August 2022 06:53
Virgin Galactic has once again pushed back the start of commercial flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane, saying upgrades of its carrier aircraft are taking longer than expected.
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Astra cancels Rocket 3 to focus on larger vehicle
Thursday, 04 August 2022 23:41
Astra Space announced Aug. 4 it is canceling its existing small launch vehicle after its most recent failure and will focus instead on a much larger vehicle that may not be ready to fly customers until 2024.
NASA and Roscosmos officials restate intent to operate ISS after 2024
Thursday, 04 August 2022 22:06
NASA and Roscosmos reiterated that they expect to continue operations of the International Space Station after 2024 as NASA continues to push for an extension to 2030.
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China launches secretive reusable test spacecraft
Thursday, 04 August 2022 19:20
China sent a highly-classified reusable experimental spacecraft into orbit Thursday, two years after a similarly clandestine mission.
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NESDIS awards enterprise cloud contract to SAIC and Carahsoft
Thursday, 04 August 2022 19:00
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the award Aug. 3 of a $15 million contract for cloud services to SAIC and Carahsoft.
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Spire to host second optical payload for South Korea’s Hancom
Thursday, 04 August 2022 18:25
Spire Global said Aug. 4 it will host a second Earth-imaging payload for Hancom InSpace, which became the first private South Korean company to operate a commercial satellite mission earlier this year.